Patrick Rosal

Rosal is the author of four books of poetry: Brooklyn Antediluvian, Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, all from Persea Books. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including The New York Times, Tin House, Drunken Boat, Poetry, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Grantland, Brevity, Breakbeat Poets, and The Best American Poetry. He is co-founding editor of Some Call It Ballin’, a literary sports magazine.

Rosal received his MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas, Austin, Bloomfield College, and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Rutgers University-Camden.

• 2007 - Global Filipino Literary Award for My American Kundiman[1]
• 2008 - Association for Asian American Studies Poetry/Prose Award for My American Kundiman[2]
• 2011 - National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlight for Boneshepherds[3]
• 2017 - Guggenheim Fellowship[4]
• 2017 - Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Brooklyn Antediluvian[5]
• 2017 - Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Brooklyn Antediluvian[6]
• 2018 - National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship[7]
• 2022 - William Carlos Williams Award[8]